Indroduction

Adding a menu type

In the Joomla!1.6 framework, components are executed using menu items. If you go in the menu manager of your Joomla!1.6 installation, there does not yet exist a HelloWorld menu type. Adding this functionnality is easy in Joomla. Simply put a site/views/helloworld/tmpl/default.xml file containing:

Create a compressed file of this directory or directly download the archive and install it using the extension manager of Joomla!1.6. You can add a menu item of this component using the menu manager in the backend.